Claire McCaskill

The relative comity of the race for the Democratic nomination for president was interrupted last week with an unexpectedly sharp attack video aimed in an unexpected direction. “Bernie Sanders is no progressive when it comes to guns,” said the narrator of a Web video produced by a "super PAC" supporting former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. That the first direct attack of the Democratic primary would focus on guns – a second-tier issue -- and Sanders – a long-shot candidate – would have been hard to predict in a race dominated by front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and the party’s search for an economic message. But as Sanders, the...

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The Senate Intelligence Committee's...

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